Quotes by Alfred Smith

• Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
• All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
• It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
• The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
• It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
• No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.